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POST-1909-42 This is the House Series - Few of the women.jpg
Part of a series of six anti-suffrage postcards, labeled Series No. E. 19, based on the children's rhyme, "This is the house that Jack built." All but one of the cards refers to the British Houses of Parliament.

POST-1910-50 To my Valentine Holloway.jpg
Postcard shows a police officer holding an angry suffragist who is carrying a "Votes for women" flag.

The poem refers to Holloway Prison in London, where many suffragists were imprisoned.

POST-1909-31 BW Angel Series Heavy Work.jpg
Series of cards with Cupid as the central figure. This card features a black and white illustration of Cupid wearing a "Woman Suffrage" sash and holding a sign that reads: "Isn't your wife intelligent enough to vote? Mine is."

POST-1905-10 Downhearted Suffragettes.jpg
Postcard with a cartoon illustration of a police officer struggling to carry a woman who is holding out a "Votes for Women" sign from Police Court.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Miss E. Harding "milwyn Villa" Blaengarw N. Bridgend, and…

POST-1909-37 Down with man-made laws.jpg
Postcard is part of a six-card series entitled "The Suffragette. This card features a a young girl making an address from on top of a barrel next to a "Votes for Women" placard as a police officer walks behind her.

POST-1909-57 Suffragette goes to glory.jpg
Postcard is part of a six-card series entitled "The Suffragette. This card shows an ugly buck-toothed suffragists sticking her head through the bars of the carriage taking her to jail. She is holding a "Votes for women" flag upside-down.

On the…

POST-1913-03 Leet Brothers Suffrage Parade Series.jpg
Photographic postcard of the suffrage parade held in Washington, D.C. the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.

Reproduces a photograph of a group of young girls, dressed in white, each carrying a balloon.

This is part of a set of…

POST-1913-02 Leet Brothers Suffrage Parade Series.jpg
Photographic postcard of the suffrage parade held in Washington, D.C. the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.

Reproduces a photograph of a group of women, dressed in native dress and costumes. The front line of women are carrying a…

POST-1905-11 Suffragists attacking policeman.jpg
Postcard is labeled No. 641, and contains a colorful cartoon illustration of one woman restraining a police officer while another woman hits him with an umbrella.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Mr. Inward 64 Sayer Street Elephant & Castle…
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